Year-Ender 2023: A Look at the Top 11 Space Moments of 2023
Live MintFrom private space attempts to countries notching new triumphs, 2023 saw a host of moments to remember from the space sector this year. October 4 — NASA’s first asteroid sample lands on Earth After seven years of long wait, the US space agency NASA's first asteroid sample landed on Earth, in the desert in the western state of Utah after a 3.86-billion-mile journey. July 12 — NASA's James Webb Space Telescope marks its first anniversary NASA marked one year of discovery by the James Webb Space Telescope on July 12 with a spectacular new image of Sun-like stars being born. August 20 — Russia's Luna-25 mission crashes on the moon's surface Russia's Luna-25 spacecraft which was launched to make soft-landing on the south pole of the moon has crashed on the lunar surface, the Russian Space Agency Roscosmos confirmed. August 23 — India's Chandrayaan-3 becomes the first to land on the Moon's South Pole The Indian Space Research Organisation’s third lunar mission, Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft, has successfully landed on the South Pole of the Moon, a remarkable feat no country has ever achieved, amid cheers and applause among the scientists.
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